Life along the Railway Tracks - Manila, Philippines

A Photographic Story

Commuters depart Alabang railway station on board a trolley

Homemade wooden carts take Filipinos to work or school without the hassles of traffic and at a cheaper price. These improvised carts ply the same railway tracks used by the trains of the PNR Metro Commuter Line. As soon as the train rumbles past, the men heave their homemade carts back onto the tracks and passengers hop aboard.

Alabang, Muntinlupa, Philippines.

Canon EOS Mk III, EF 135 mm, F 2.0, 1/400 sec.

“Trolley boys” returning to Alabang Station to collect more commuters

Scores of commuters in a city of about 11 million are propelled to their destinations by “trolley boys” pushing makeshift carts that travel a few sections of the sprawling capital’s railways.